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Violet Oakley was an American artist & the 1st American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first 1/4 of the 20th C. she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practiced by men
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Pearl Van Sciver (1896-1966) was a Philadelphia based artist, mostly of oil paintings of landscapes and floral still lifes often inspired by flowers from her own garden and greenhouse.
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Lucia Fairchild Fuller was an American painter & member of the NH Cornish Art Colony. Fuller created a mural entitled
"The Women of Plymouth" for the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.
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I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.
Janet Fish
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@artcrimeprof How about Lee Krasner slashing her own canvases, and then turning them into collages?
Toyin Ojih Odutola is a Nigerian-American contemporary artist known for her multimedia drawings and works on paper. Her unique style of complex mark-making and lavish compositions rethink the category and traditions of portraiture and storytelling.
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Harmonia Rosales reinterprets Renaissance masterworks by replacing Black heroines as the main subject of the painting, because she says that “religion and power go hand in hand” and the colonists had used religion to “manipulate and control."
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Laura Wheeler Waring was a painter included in the first exhibition of African-American art in the U.S., in 1927.She was commissioned to do portraits of prominent African Americans and chose some associated with the Harlem Renaissance
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Hilda Ward was an American Expressionist painter and author. She studied with Robert Henri and exhibited in the 1910 New York Exhibition of Independent Artists and the 1913 Armory Show.
Favorite subject? guess.
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Edith Dimock (1876-1955) was an American painter. Her work was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. She married fellow artist, William Glackens, but continued to use her maiden name professionally after the marriage.
Top Rt "Fine Fruits" in Armory show
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